Browse all books

The Sorrows Of Satan: Original Text

Bookmark in Readling App

Find similar books

?

Marie Corelli

The Sorrows Of Satan: Original Text

(Independently published May 14, 2020)
A Faustian novel and bestseller of its time, focused on Geoffrey, a starving author. The post delivers three letters, the first from a friend who offers to help with an introduction. The second advises him he has inherited money. The third has been written by Lucio, an aristocrat purporting to know the best way to invest his newfound wealth. It soon becomes apparent that Lucio is the Devil.Do you know what it is to be poor? Not poor with the arrogant poverty complained of by certain people who have five or six thousand a year to live upon, and who yet swear they can hardly manage to make both ends meet, but really poor,—downright, cruelly, hideously poor, with a poverty that is graceless, sordid and miserable? Poverty that compels you to dress in your one suit of clothes till it is worn threadbare,—that denies you clean linen on account of the ruinous charges of washerwomen,—that robs you of your own self–respect, and causes you to slink along the streets vaguely abashed, instead of walking erect among your fellow–men in independent ease,—this is the sort of poverty I mean. This is the grinding curse that keeps down noble aspiration under a load of ignoble care; this is the moral cancer that eats into the heart of an otherwise well–intentioned human creature and makes him envious and malignant, and inclined to the use of dynamite. When he sees the fat idle woman of society passing by in her luxurious carriage, lolling back lazily,
ISBN
/ 9798644057528
Weight
20.8 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.9 in.

Enjoy reading The Sorrows Of Satan: Original Text? You may also like these books